BookPeople has announced the longlists for the 2023 Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards. The longlisted titles in each category are:... Read more

Allen & Unwin (A&U) has appointed Cate Paterson as publishing director. Paterson, who was publishing director at Pan Macmillan prior to joining A&U to establish... Read more

University of Queensland Press (UQP) has appointed Jean Smith and Sally Wilson as joint marketing and publicity managers. Smith and Wilson will take over the... Read more

The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane (A&U) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, worth £25,000 (A$46,000) and open... Read more

UK-based online bookseller the Book Depository will close on 26 April. In a letter to vendors, the Book Depository said it will be winding down... Read more

The National Library of Australia has welcomed the federal government’s commitment to funding the library’s digital archive, Trove; the federal government has also extended the deadline for new title claims under its extended lending rights scheme, which now covers digital formats; and the program for this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which runs 10–14 May, has been announced.

In awards, the shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize has been announced; Waverley Council has announced that the prize money for the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award will be doubled; local authors are among the finalists for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize; and two titles by Bolinda have been shortlisted at the 2023 British Book Awards.

Wiradyuri author Anita Heiss has been appointed as publisher at large for Simon & Schuster’s new First Nations imprint Bundyi; Writing WA has appointed literary editor, festival director and journalist Will Yeoman as CEO; and Text senior editor David Winter is leaving the company this month after 14 years.

In the UK, the Quarto Group reported a 7% drop in revenue for the year ending 31 December, while Faber recorded its best ever revenue and operating profit results in the year ending 31 March 2022. Penguin Random House’s revenue grew 5% in the 2022 financial year, however its profit was down 12% over the same period. Also overseas, Hachette UK is in consultation with Welbeck Publishing Group staff following its acquisition of the independent publisher last November.

Ahead of the London Book Fair, Books+Publishing‘s rights publication Think Australian talks to author Debra Dank, whose debut is in the running for three NSW... Read more

Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold English Language rights for China to A Human for Kingsley and A Job for Kingsley (Gabriel Evans), Herman Crab (Peter Helliar, illus by... Read more

Top 10 bestsellers Bluey: Happy Easter (Puffin) Did I Ever Tell You This? (Sam Neill, Text) I Will Find You (Harlan Coben, Century) Bluey: Easter... Read more

Winner of the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Anam is a remarkable debut novel exploring memory, family, colonialism and displacement. The... Read more

After breaking through to the mainstream with her 2019 Stella Prize-longlisted book Paper Emperors, academic Sally Young continues to expose the dark interplay between Australian... Read more

Most of us have left some kind of regrettable imprint on the internet. It’s with this discarded online ephemera that anxiety swells about what people... Read more

Where I Slept, by award-winning poet and author Libby Angel, is a sharp and sobering piece of autofiction that follows a struggling, unnamed poet/artist living... Read more

When Mizuto’s father disappears after a tsunami, Mizuto and his mother are both lost in lonely grief, until Mizuto hears about the ‘kaze no denwa’... Read more

When Bernie’s mother gets a top-secret new job, it seems too good to be true. So instead of staying behind with his aunt, Bernie decides... Read more

The latest book by scientists Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery delves into similar territory as Flannery’s ‘Explore Your World’ series, but is pitched at a... Read more

Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine.... Read more

As of 1 May 2023, Brumby Sunstate will cease selling and distributing Lake Press books into the Trade & Gift market in Australia. From this date, Lake Press titles will be available via a new Wholesale Direct offering at lakepress.com.au/wholesaledirect.

Please note:

• April 2023 new releases will be sold and distributed by Brumby. For sale or return customers, Brumby Sunstate will accept returns up until 24 April 2023; after this date, returns will not be accepted.
• From May 2023 new releases will be available directly from Lake Press.

The Lake Press Wholesale Direct will offer competitive wholesale pricing and will distribute all Lake Press new releases and backlist titles directly to retailers.

From 1 May you will be able to register for a Wholesale Direct account. In the meantime, to join our mailing list and to get notified of the launch, please email your contact details to wholesale@lakepress.com.au

Lake Press will be exhibiting at the upcoming Melbourne Gift Fair in August and will communicate stand details prior to the event.

Lake Press would like to take this opportunity to thank Brumby Sunstate for their representation into the Trade/Gift market over the past 3 years and looks forward to once again dealing directly with customers.

Showcasing Australia’s largest stock saddle collection, the Drapac Collection, Wild Ride is a sumptuous illustrated history of the iconic Australian stock saddle, from colonial pioneers... Read more